Cheats on or off
RainbowTigress:
One thing I've heard over and over at the BBS is that it is VERY important to ALWAYS turn off boolprop testingcheats when you're done using it because it will cause serious problems if you leave it on! You have to take anything you read on the BBS with a huge grain of salt anyway, because I have been using it for several months and I haven't suffered any ill effects. They might think that it causes problems because you get error messages all the time when something goes wrong instead of your sim just jumping up or dropping queue. Also, you have to know what you are doing, which most people on the BBS don't. The cheat can be very useful if used wisely. I take the time to educate myself and I don't use stuff I don't understand unless I'm in a neighborhood that I don't care about, and I don't save the game if something messes up! But you just can't argue with people who think they know it all.
I keep the boolprop on in my startup cheats file. I have an alias for moveobjects, but I don't leave it on because I like the game keeping me from putting stuff where it doesn't go unless I want to.
Ancient Sim:
I play in permanent debug mode, too. I have quite a few cheats in my start-up file, although not moveobjects as I prefer not to have that on unless I am using it. It may be that playing like that causes problems, I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't want to play without it now. I'd only be typing it in every 5 minutes if I did.
RainbowTigress:
Quote from: Ancient Sim on 2005 September 11, 05:55:27
I certainly wouldn't want to play without it now. I'd only be typing it in every 5 minutes if I did.
LOL, me too.
C.S.:
Quote from: rainbow on 2005 September 11, 05:20:57
One thing I've heard over and over at the BBS is that it is VERY important to ALWAYS turn off boolprop testingcheats when you're done using it because it will cause serious problems if you leave it on!
Well, that's understandable for people who only know the basics, and where would those people go to for answers when something goes wrong which they don't know how to fix and the people who introduced the testingcheats were long gone, know what I mean? People who are new to the debug mode (probably the same people responsible for melodramatic posts like 'Boolprop ruined my life!', and who also seems to be allergic to using the 'Search' function on the BBS) may be warned in an exaggerated manner , but at least they were warned not to leave it on if they don't know what they are doing. I myself am too much of a chicken to leave testingcheats on now :P. When I found out about this 'cheat' last year, I used and experimented with it freely, exiting without saving when I screwed up, until people started disappearing from my sims' phone books. I had no idea how to get those people back at the time, there also didn't seem to be any 'boolprop tutorials' back then 'cos my searches turned up empty. I was also scratching my head over the immense slowing down of the lot - turned out those vanished people from the phone book were stuck on lot, invisible. It wasn't until I came across Merola's Mind Control Mirror shortly after that I knew what to do. As much as it was funny seeing those people standing on the sidewalk or pacing the lawn with a phone to their ears still chatting long after my sims hung up, that incident ended my debug-mode-on days :P.
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